NURSES TO RESCUE.
LONDON, January 20. There were exciting scenes at a fire in a City of London Institute in Bow Road, where 200 aged and bedridden men and women, some of whom were blind, hurriedly wrapped in blankets, were carried out by sixty nurses. Those available for rescue work placed patients in wheeled chairs or wheeled out the beds to safety'. Meanwhile 200 firemen, with twenty engines, put out the fire in two hours.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20519, 22 January 1935, Page 1
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